Bunnies???
Happy Easter Everyone!! Would someone please explain the link between bunnies, Christ's resurrection, and chicken eggs? There's nothing like living in a foreign country to make you really think about why you celebrate the traditions you do in your native country.
Regardless, Kurt and I dyed eggs like good American kids:
Regardless, Kurt and I dyed eggs like good American kids:
posted by PinkKozmo @ 4:13 PM
2 Comments:
At 5:36 PM,
Unknown said…
Easter
O.E. Eastre (Northumbrian Eostre), from P.Gmc. *Austron, a goddess of fertility and sunrise whose feast was celebrated at the spring equinox, from *austra-, from PIE *aus- "to shine" (especially of the dawn). Bede says Anglo-Saxon Christians adopted her name and many of the celebratory practices for their Mass of Christ's resurrection. Ultimately related to east. Almost all neighboring languages use a variant of L. Pasche to name this holiday. Easter Island so called because it was discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday, 1722.Easter. Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Easter (accessed: April 11, 2007).
Did you know that Hollie's pregnant with no. 6? Talk about fertility festivals!
Also, I'll be going to the land of the rising sun this august. Wish me luck.
At 4:55 PM,
Anonymous said…
in catholic school i learned that a bunny hatched out of an egg three days after jesus died, in order to save the world from original sin. duh.
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